Egypt to Boost Gas Supplies to Jordan

Egypt will boost deliveries of natural gas to Jordan, which had seen supplies dwindle since Egypt's uprising nearly two years ago, the Associated Press has reported.

According to the news agency, Egypt would pump between 190 and 210 million cubic feet of gas per day, almost three times the daily amount delivered in recent months.

Jordan depends on Egyptian gas to generate 80 percent of its electricity, but supplies were interrupted over a dozen times by militants attacking pipelines since February 2011. In the meantime it was forced to use diesel and heavy fuel to run national power plants, boosting costs by $4.2 million a day.